2000 Domaine Drouhin Oregon Pinot Noir Willamette Valley
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Sweet and broad. Much more bumptious than any other wine. Good, fresh, very firm. Should go places but not nearly ready. (JR)
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Jancis Robinson MW
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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The ruby-colored, cherry-scented 2000 Pinot Noir is forward, ripe, and generous. Strawberries, cherries, and raspberries can be discerned in its candied, lush, flamboyant personality. Drink this beauty over the next 4 years. Tel. (503) 864-2700
Good medium red. Perfumed aromas of candied redcurrant and cherry, with smoke and floral components. Solid but one-dimensional red fruit flavors offer decent definition and weight. More aromatically inviting than most Oregon pinots from this vintage, but a bit pinched on the back end, with some unabsorbed acidity. (I tasted the 1999 Laurene Red Hills Estate bottling three times but was unable to get past this wine's herbaceous element.)